Culinary Manager

If you're a culinary leader who's thinking about owning your own restaurant someday, or growing into a leader beyond just cooking great food - we'd love to chat.

Up Hospitality Partners is growing, and we're looking to welcome a new Culinary Manager to our team in Nashville. We're not just hiring someone to manage a kitchen, we're proud to teach you how to run your own business/restaurant someday, through structured classes in finance, operations, communication, and leadership, plus daily and weekly mentorship.

If you've spent years earning your craft on the line and you're ready for the ownership, the accountability, and the seat at the table that comes with running a kitchen as a business, this is that next step.

What's Available

• Salary: $65–75k based on experience
• PTO: 3 weeks (15 days)
• Health benefits: 50% company-covered
• Daily comped meals while on shift
• Daily, weekly, and monthly structured mentorship
• Leadership development classes beyond industry norms
• Graduate-level financial frameworks
• A clear path to growth
• A lifetime of support if/whenever you chase your dreams, within or outside the company

What You'll Own as Culinary Manager

• Championing our Vision, Values, and culture through everything that leaves your kitchen
• Daily product ordering, inventory, and receiving — built on accurate pars, business levels, and the budget
• Recipe costing, theoretical and daily food costing, and troubleshooting COGS before it becomes a problem
• BOH scheduling that matches business levels and the budget
• Leading the full hiring process for your culinary team — recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training
• Health department compliance, never dropping below a 97 and pushing every location toward 100
• Menu execution to spec, plus support on recipe and pricing development
• Coaching and mentoring chefs and cooks daily — building leaders, not just line cooks
• Partnering with your Executive Chef and Managing Partners on what's next for the brand
• Collaborating across Beverage, Events, Accounting, and Marketing to keep every department aligned
• Building trust and accountability on your team, and modeling the standard you expect from them

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of restaurant/BOH management experience, or a strong chef ready to lead
• Comfort with costing, budgets, and reading the numbers behind the menu OR the hunger to learn and apply quickly
• Proficiency with Google Drive and Microsoft Office
• ServSafe certification (or ability to obtain — renewals/updates covered by the company)
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus, not required

Our Purpose

We build community for our neighbors, growth for our teammates, and a vision of success for the industry.

Our Values

• We are accountable and find a way
• We treat each other with dignity, equity, and respect
• We are creative, sharp, organized, and safe
• We grow personally and professionally through ongoing training and development
• We over deliver on value
• We are storytellers
• We are fiscally healthy

If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you.

Up Hospitality Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.